Hello again.This weeks homework is to write about what I did last week or over the weekend.I am starting by saying that 'Friday Night' I went home.But I'm unsure how to write Friday night, or how to talk about the time of the day in past tense, other than yesterday.きんようび ゆうがた Is this Friday night? This is just a guess.The sentence I'm trying to make is:私は きんようび ゆうがた ひとりで 伝主で Leicester 煮 いきました。Friday night I went to Leicester on the Train alone.

And then later I want to say:

きんようび ゆうがた 私は にほんご を べんきゅし つもり かった でも、 たいべん つかれた。Friday night I Intended to study Japanese however, I was very tired.

I am very unsure about this sentence I don't think べんきゅしつもりかった is correct at all. And I don't know the correct past tense non dictionary form for tired = つかれた.

Benvolio wrote:Hello again.This weeks homework is to write about what I did last week or over the weekend.I am starting by saying that 'Friday Night' I went home.But I'm unsure how to write Friday night, or how to talk about the time of the day in past tense, other than yesterday.きんようび ゆうがた Is this Friday night? This is just a guess.

金曜日の夕方（きんようび の ゆうがた） would do, though I don't think it's the most common way to say it. I think 晩（ばん） or 夜（よる） would be more common.

The sentence I'm trying to make is:私は きんようび ゆうがた ひとりで 伝主で Leicester 煮 いきました。Friday night I went to Leicester on the Train alone.

I am very unsure about this sentence I don't think べんきゅしつもりかった is correct at all. And I don't know the correct past tense non dictionary form for tired = つかれた.

I hope you can help, as always. Thank you.

でも is never used to mean "but" in the middle of a sentence. つかれた is already past tense (of the verb つかれる.) Past tense verbs are often used to modify a noun to show that a certain state is in effect. (Though I have a feeling that つかれたのです might be better here, I doubt you've covered のです yet.)

If you are ever unsure about how to write a place name in Japanese, visit the Wikipedia page for that place and then click on the 日本語 link in the next column to bring you to the Japanese wikipedia version of the page. In this case, it confirms that it is レスター.

And べんきょう する つもり でした is the past tense of 'Intended to study'the する seems out of place to, or at least I have forgotten about it.

つもり can only go after a predicate; べんきょう is just a noun, so you need to follow it with する to make it into a verb (and thus a predicate).

Nouns (followed by a copula) can be predicates, but they don't really work with つもり, because when you say "I plan to be (something)", you really mean "I plan to become (something)", so the equivalent expression would be 何かになるつもりだ.

I searched for なつもり, だつもり, であるつもり and だったつもり. There were no examples of だったつもり or であるつもり, the only two examples of だつもり were 死んだつもり, and all but one example of なつもり were そんなつもり (the one exception used a な adjective, 有能なつもり.)

Yudan Taiteki wrote:つもり can only go after a predicate; べんきょう is just a noun, so you need to follow it with する to make it into a verb (and thus a predicate).

Mentioning this, I just thought of a question: "benkyou" can also be a noun. Unless I misunderstand the concept of "predicate", I thought plain nouns can be predicates as well (e.g. それは本).

This is going to get into linguistic territory that is perhaps confusing, I apologize and this will not benefit the OP, I fear.

In this case it's perhaps best to think of the だ as being dropped. Typically a predicate is one of three things -- a verb, an i-adjective, or a noun/na-adjective + だ. だ can sometimes drop out or change to な or の; JSL refers to it as "unstable" (the reason for considering it to be dropped, or changed form, is that if you put だった or じゃない into the same place, you end up with a still grammatical phrase in which the copula is required. Furthermore, な is ultimately derived from なり, a classical Japanese copula, and の is highly likely to have come from some former copula as well.)

When you have something like 勉強のつもり, this の is actually a form of だ rather than the "possessive" particle (as shown by the fact that 勉強だったつもり is grammatically fine, whereas in something like 私の本, *私だった本 is not acceptable.)

(I found 18,000+ hits for だったつもり...)

However, all this is kind of technical and beyond what the original poster was asking, I think.